Braw Lads Gathering, Torwoodlee
Galashiels, UK. 26 June 2019.
Braw Lads Gathering, Torwoodlee
Torwoodlee Ride Out
The Braw Lads Gathering principals, led by Braw Lad Robbie Lowrie and Braw Lass Nicola Laing, makes its ride out to Torwoodlee to visit James W Pringle, 14th and present Laird of Torwoodlee & Buckholm and take a “Sod and Stone” from the Tower and Estate of Torwoodlee.
This forms just part of the Braw Lads Week,
The granting by King James IV as a gift to his bride-to-be in 1503 of the lands of Ettrick Forest, then in the possession of the Crown, preliminary to his marriage to Princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, which marriage led to the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England one hundred years later, an event symbolised by the handing over of earth and stone of the Forest - the Act of Sasine - which took place near the tower and manor of Galashiels.
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